The relevance of the encyclopaedia : From semiosis to sedimentation and back again
Sonesson, Göran LU
(2021)
Semiosis in Communication: Differences and Similarities
In Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC]
30.
p.97-120
- Abstract
- Unlike what is usually taken for granted in semiotics, communication, in the sense of semiosis, does not essentially depend on transport and/or recoding. Instead, it consists in the creation of an artefact, with the additional setting of a task of interpretation. This task may be set by the addressee, just as likely as by the addresser. In making this suggestion, we are inspired by Husserlean phenomenology, in particular as it was situated into a social framework by the Prague School. We cannot conceive of communication without sedimentation, the passive mnemonic remnants of earlier semiotic acts, which form the background to the interpretation of any current act. Although this notion was rediscovered by Lotman in terms of accumulation,... (More)
- Unlike what is usually taken for granted in semiotics, communication, in the sense of semiosis, does not essentially depend on transport and/or recoding. Instead, it consists in the creation of an artefact, with the additional setting of a task of interpretation. This task may be set by the addressee, just as likely as by the addresser. In making this suggestion, we are inspired by Husserlean phenomenology, in particular as it was situated into a social framework by the Prague School. We cannot conceive of communication without sedimentation, the passive mnemonic remnants of earlier semiotic acts, which form the background to the interpretation of any current act. Although this notion was rediscovered by Lotman in terms of accumulation, phenomenology has been more thorough in its study of sedimentation. Giving a new twist to this idea, we are able to resolve some of the paradoxes of the current idea of extended mind. This paper also takes up the idea of semiotic acts being oriented either to the addresser or the addressee, as suggested, but in terms of cultures, by the Tartu School, then broadens the notion to stand for the shifting focus of attention, also as applied to the content of the semiotic act. Having recourse to Schütz’s idea of a system of relevancies, combined with Gurwitsch’s notion of the field of consciousness, we finally propose a resolution to the conundrum of the situated encyclopaedia, as it was characterized by Eco. (Less)
- Abstract (Swedish)
- Unlike what is usually taken for granted in semiotics, communication, in the sense of semiosis, does not essentially depend on transport and/or recoding. Instead, it consists in the creation of an artefact, with the additional setting of a task of interpretation. This task may be set by the addressee, just as likely as by the addresser. In making this suggestion, we are inspired by Husserlean phenomenology, in particular as it was situated into a social framework by the Prague School. We cannot conceive of communication without sedimentation, the passive mnemonic remnants of earlier semiotic acts, which form the background to the interpretation of any current act. Although this notion was rediscovered by Lotman in terms of accumulation,... (More)
- Unlike what is usually taken for granted in semiotics, communication, in the sense of semiosis, does not essentially depend on transport and/or recoding. Instead, it consists in the creation of an artefact, with the additional setting of a task of interpretation. This task may be set by the addressee, just as likely as by the addresser. In making this suggestion, we are inspired by Husserlean phenomenology, in particular as it was situated into a social framework by the Prague School. We cannot conceive of communication without sedimentation, the passive mnemonic remnants of earlier semiotic acts, which form the background to the interpretation of any current act. Although this notion was rediscovered by Lotman in terms of accumulation, phenomenology has been more thorough in its study of sedimentation. Giving a new twist to this idea, we are able to resolve some of the paradoxes of the current idea of extended mind. This paper also takes up the idea of semiotic acts being oriented either to the addresser or the addressee, as suggested, but in terms of cultures, by the Tartu School, then broadens the notion to stand for the shifting focus of attention, also as applied to the content of the semiotic act. Having recourse to Schütz’s idea of a system of relevancies, combined with Gurwitsch’s notion of the field of consciousness, we finally propose a resolution to the conundrum of the situated encyclopaedia, as it was characterized by Eco (Less)
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- Communication, sedimentation, Interpretation, relevance, extended mind, Communication, sedimentation, interpretation, relevance, extended mind
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- Differences, Similarities and Meanings : Semiotic Investigations of Contemporary Communication Phenomena - Semiotic Investigations of Contemporary Communication Phenomena
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- Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC]
- editor
- Drăgan, Nicolae-Sorin
- volume
- 30
- pages
- 23 pages
- publisher
- De Gruyter
- conference name
- Semiosis in Communication: Differences and Similarities
- conference location
- Bucharest, Romania
- conference dates
- 2018-06-14 - 2018-06-16
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- 978-3-11-065882-8
- 9783110662900
- DOI
- 10.1515/9783110662900-005
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- English
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